Posts Tagged Pandora

I use Pandora Radio for my music listening habits as listening to the same thing gets stale and old pretty fast. The only downside being it needs to be run inside a browser with flash. I must say it is a great service for the most part, but there is a slight problem. Users of Pandora may have noticed this trend themselves. After a certain point of songs over time, the channels themselves start degrading in quality of their recommendations. Was it some rogue song? To many thumbs up to tell anymore? I don’t know, but I do know that eventually (about every 3 months here) one has to start up a new station as it gets to the point where the recommendations are completely horrible. For instance, today for my Disturbed station (seeded by Disturbed, KoRn, and Seether) I thumbed down 25 songs in a row before it got to something I remotely enjoyed. Time for a new station channel…